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Today's Topics:
1. UKR 11980.089 kHz (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX)
2. Re: [dxld] Technical changes at Topoln? transmitter
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Re: [dxld] Technical changes at Topoln? transmitter
(Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX)
4. MVBR and HLR up-dates (Tom Taylor)
5. Glenn Hauser logs Februar 28-March 1, 2014 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 09:46:39 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX" <buesch...@email.de>
To: "DXLD" <d...@yahoogroups.com>, "HCDX"
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] UKR 11980.089 kHz
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UKR 11980.089 kHz
UKRAINE 11980.089 the dubious rather amateur radio station of the
transmitter engineering in 25mb listed 0800-1000 UT as UKR Radio Dniprovska
Hvylya Ukr Zaporizhia is now on air, heard at 0825 UT on 1st March, with S=7
here in western Europe, in eastern Europe and Russia a bit stronger like S=8
on air. But sounds more like a preserve program of religiosity, ideology,
literature, tradition, - But I don't understand anything anyway ... now at
0826 UT a piece UKR Pop mx.
Krym Tatar TV livestream on http://atr.ua/live
73 wb
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 11:21:43 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesche...@web.de>
To: "DXLD" <d...@yahoogroups.com>, "HCDX"
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "BCLNEWS"
<bcln...@yahoogroups.com>,
"bdxc-news" <bdxc-n...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Technical changes at Topoln? transmitter
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CZECH REPUBLIC 270 At 1011 UT March 1st still S=9+20dB in eastern Bavaria
area near Nuremberg on the Czech-German border. But nothing heard now on 270
kHz anymore in all Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Poland and Ukraine.
73 wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai Ludwig" <>
To: <d...@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 11:09 AM
Subject: [dxld] Technical changes at Topoln? transmitter
> The technical changes as announced on the press conference on 27 February
> http://www.digizone.cz/clanky/dlouhovlnny-vysilac-topolna-snizi-vyrazne-vykon-v-provozu-bude-jeste-dalsi-tri-roky/
>
> have apparently been made already at or around this day. What has been
> announced as "changing the modulation parameters to save even more power"
> turns out as a now extremely hard dynamics compression. I already did not
> like the previous processing, which was essentially the same as in use on
> the mediumwave outlets, but what they now churn out really sounds like
> crap.
>
> And apparently the power has been considerably reduced. 50 km north of
> Dresden the signal is no longer usable, and an attempt at Dresden itself
> yielded little result in the noise floor of the big town at all. This
> provokes me to speculate if this is perhaps already no longer the DRV 750
> gear but instead the announced 50 kW solid-state transmitter. One could
> think of a used transmitter that would fit, the one run from 1997 til 2000
> at Burg (east of Magdeburg) on 261 kHz. This was a Transradio rig, this
> company already delivered Radiokomunikace with their TRAM series
> transmitters for smaller mediumwave outlets, thus this scenario does not
> appear to be far-fetched.
>
> One must raise the question what's the purpose of this modest power
> operation at all. On the press conference only parts of the Czech Republic
> itself have been mentioned as served areas anymore, even admitting that in
> western Bohemia the signal will already be pretty weak. But in this
> specified area there is no need for a longwave service at all. Radiozurnal
> has a full FM network, there are also no special broadcasts on 270 kHz
> whatsoever, it is merely the plain Radiozurnal feed from Astra 3B as also
> transmit on FM.
>
> At the press conference remarks had been made about the regulator not
> wanting to see the Czech Republic loosing this frequency. Thus I very much
> have the impression that the arrangement is not much more than a mere
> channel marker, by design of little real use.
>
> Kai
>
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 11:25:31 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX" <buesch...@email.de>
To: "egroups_mwdx" <m...@yahoogroups.com>, "bdxc-news"
<bdxc-n...@yahoogroups.com>, "BCLNEWS" <bcln...@yahoogroups.com>,
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Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Technical changes at Topoln? transmitter
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CZECH REPUBLIC 270 At 1011 UT March 1st still S=9+20dB in eastern Bavaria
area near Nuremberg on the Czech-German border. But nothing heard now on 270
kHz anymore in all Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Poland and Ukraine.
73 wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai Ludwig" <>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 11:09 AM
Subject: [dxld] Technical changes at Topoln? transmitter
> The technical changes as announced on the press conference on 27 February
> http://www.digizone.cz/clanky/dlouhovlnny-vysilac-topolna-snizi-vyrazne-vykon-v-provozu-bude-jeste-dalsi-tri-roky/
>
> have apparently been made already at or around this day. What has been
> announced as "changing the modulation parameters to save even more power"
> turns out as a now extremely hard dynamics compression. I already did not
> like the previous processing, which was essentially the same as in use on
> the mediumwave outlets, but what they now churn out really sounds like
> crap.
>
> And apparently the power has been considerably reduced. 50 km north of
> Dresden the signal is no longer usable, and an attempt at Dresden itself
> yielded little result in the noise floor of the big town at all. This
> provokes me to speculate if this is perhaps already no longer the DRV 750
> gear but instead the announced 50 kW solid-state transmitter. One could
> think of a used transmitter that would fit, the one run from 1997 til 2000
> at Burg (east of Magdeburg) on 261 kHz. This was a Transradio rig, this
> company already delivered Radiokomunikace with their TRAM series
> transmitters for smaller mediumwave outlets, thus this scenario does not
> appear to be far-fetched.
>
> One must raise the question what's the purpose of this modest power
> operation at all. On the press conference only parts of the Czech Republic
> itself have been mentioned as served areas anymore, even admitting that in
> western Bohemia the signal will already be pretty weak. But in this
> specified area there is no need for a longwave service at all. Radiozurnal
> has a full FM network, there are also no special broadcasts on 270 kHz
> whatsoever, it is merely the plain Radiozurnal feed from Astra 3B as also
> transmit on FM.
>
> At the press conference remarks had been made about the regulator not
> wanting to see the Czech Republic loosing this frequency. Thus I very much
> have the impression that the arrangement is not much more than a mere
> channel marker, by design of little real use.
>
> Kai
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 12:12:10 +0000
From: Tom Taylor <emrs...@gmail.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] MVBR and HLR up-dates
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MVBR and HLR up-dates
Sunday 2nd of March:
09 to 10 UTC, MVBR on 7265 KHz
10 to 11 UTC, MVBR on 9485 KHz (New Channel)
12 to 14 UTC, HLR on 9485 KHz (New Channel)
Good Listening
73s
Tom
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 11:16:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs Februar 28-March 1, 2014
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** BOLIVIA [and non]. 6134.8, March 1 at 0042, again a rumbling low audible
heterodyne, so R. Santa Cruz is again being confronted head-on by R. Aparecida,
BRASIL. Daresay the latter should just shift to 6140 and everyone could be
happy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6000-, March 1 at 0037, 0255 and 0630 chex, no het audible vs RHC,
so the EBC transmitter to be testing DRM on 5990 may have finished its AM
warmup on 6000 as heard last few nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9425-9455, March 1 at 1423, filthy distorted FMy spurblob with CNR1
audio is back up closer to homebase 9450, vs yesterday way down around
9315-9335 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15970, March 1 at 1428, CNR 1 jamming with good signal. Now we`re
cookin`! As usual, no hint of a target but it`s a traditional Sound of Hope
100-watt nuisance frequency. Then I search 12-20 MHz, but find only these:
16920, March 1 at 1433, CNR1 jammer with fair signal, // 15970.
17880, March 1 at 1434, CNR1 jammer with good signal, unusual inband spot, vs
what? That`s because per Aoki, it`s the Saturday-only channel of VOA Tibetan
1400-1500 via Tinang, Philippines (inaudible here). Doesn`t fool the jammers
run by SARFT --- same agency responsible for broadcasting in China, just to
show you how evil it all is. If necessary, all they need to do is consult Aoki,
like I do, to find the other six frequencies, all aimed 275 degrees from
Tinang, which as I pointed out before, is NOT toward Tibet at all, but much
further south toward India, Somalia (is this for useless deniability that
they`re really aiming at Tibet, even tho in Tibetan?):
Sun 17755, Mon 17770, Tue 17790 (oh oh, vs WRMI RAN), Wed 17810, Thu 17830, Fri
17860, in neat upward progression. I sure hope the Tibetan audience has figured
this out, in case they can capture anything thru the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 7430, March 1 at 0307, stray single-pulse jammer against nothing;
while 7405 bears at least 3 pulse/tone jammers intermingling against nothing as
R. Mart? is in a break on this frequency; wall-of-noise on 7365 against active
Mart? channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BRAZIL
** EGYPT. 11905, March 1 at 0640, fair-good signal level with Arabic music but
awful modulation, also flutter. Obviously R. Cairo, as in Aoki, 'El-Bernameg
Al-Aam' 0200-0700, 250 kW, 315 degrees from Abis USward. Probably same service
which is on 13850 in A-seasons. What does that ID say? Google won`t directly
translate romanized Arabic, but did I mean ------? Yes, that translates to
``Program All``, i.e. General Service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 5950, March 1 at 0259, apparent IS, repetitive fiddle tune, more
melodic than your usual Horn of Africa music, poor signal, presumed V. of
Tigray Revolution at sign-on time. Enjoy this while you can, as WRMI has
registered 5950 for 24-hour usage in A-14; while unlikely to use all of it,
most likely will be on in our evenings like WYFR/RTI were (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 6110, March 1 at 0257, chime IS, poor signal, 0259 heard English
words ``Broadcasting Corporation`` amid sign-on in other language, surely R.
Fana, in Oromo or Amharic. In fact, WRTH shows its full name is Fana
Broadcasting Corporation (private). Lhasa and New Delhi are also scheduled, but
well into daytime there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 7300, March 1 at 0308, weak and undermodulated talk in unID language.
Aoki shows it can only be VIRI, Armenian service at 0250-0317, 500 kW, 320
degrees also USward from Sirjan; following Uzbek at 0220-0247 on same which is
18 degrees from Sirjan. This had some QRhaM SSB on the low side even tho it
must have been LSB mode (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 15720, March 1 at 1429, good open carrier, some flutter, 1430
`Sakura` and NHK World Radio Japan (pronounced more or less as in English)
opening Hindi service. ChiCom jammers are in well on 15970, 16920, so could
this be direct? No! Aoki shows 35 degrees from MADAGASCAR at 1430-1515, which
you`d think would hardly be audible here to the northwest, but just another
example of what a great site Talata is for worldwide coverage, even
unintentionally. It`s also the closest major site to our antipodes, its
opposite being really off Baja California in the Pacific (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120-AM, March 1 at 0635, VP signal with talk, no doubt VON
English service, starting to propagate; might or might not be better if I
checked earlier from *0445v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1500, Feb 28 at 1952 UT, I am checking the daytime occupant, KPGM
Pawhuska, and find it to be running 7 seconds *ahead* of source // 98.1 WWLS-FM
OKC (or rather COL suburb The Village --- where I lived 1954-1961y), so KPGM is
in the WWLS Sports Animal sphere of influence rather than that of closer KYAL
Tulsa; usual weak marginal 1500 signal. WWLS ID in passing heard on 1500, then
at 1954 UT, KPGM ID as Pawhuska-Bartlesville, consult
http://bartlesvilleradio.com where it`s obvious this cluster has the local
market tied up, also with the 1400, 100.1, 104.9 stations --- PLUS Classical
Bartlesville on HD2 of KYFM 100.1! Here`s the blurb about that:
``KYFM 100.1 HD-2 - "Classical Bartlesville" --- The new KYFM HD-2 features the
"hits" of the classical repertoire, including Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms but
also includes music from Pachelbel, Vivaldi, and Handel as well as John
Williams, Ferde Grofe, Elmer Bernstein, and George Gershwin. You'll hear your
favorites from the symphonic repertoire as well as chamber works with local
information and works written to include the human voice, all in digital HD
stereo and all for free with no subscription fees. Local weather information
and announcements of upcoming local events will be part of this service from
KYFM 100.1 HD-2.
The playlist includes overtures, piano quintets, violin concertos, symphonic
marches, symphonies, horn sonatas and other standards from the concert
repertoire plus music written for everything from operas to film scores.``
See [nothing] more at:
http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com/pages/kyfm-hd-2#sthash.9rxj1zNb.dpuf
Well, how generic can you get? That`s nice, but I certainly hope there are a
lot more composers and ensemble types than they mention. Bartlesville is within
reach of classical 88.7 KWTU Tulsa [altho maybe subject to CCI encroachments
from Joplin and Ponca City], so I am a bit surprised that B.R. is doing this,
but glad they are; might as well put an HD2 to good use. I wonder what the
programming source is? It appears that ``Listen Live`` streaming applies only
from their other four ``stations``. So I`m glad I found this out while
investigating totally disposable silly sports networking.
Bartlesville is also the home of the OK Mozart Music Festival for a dekaday
each June --- but it`s been dumbed down (ooops, I mean broadened, popularized)
from year to year with more and more non-Mozart, even non-classical stuff; 2012
was the final year for Paul Neubauer being in charge of the chamber music
series (which KCSC FM is now replaying on `Performance Oklahoma`; UT Thu
0200-0400 & Sat 1400-1600 on KCSC 90.1; UT Sun 0200-0400 (or -0300 sometimes)
on KWTU 88.7: all times one UT hour earlier from March 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, March 1 at 0038, R. Chaski very poor but enough to make out
Spanish with evangelical intonation; checking early tonight as I won`t be
around after 0100 to time the cutoff, instead going to Winter Chautauqua, only
in Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RWANDA. 6055, March 1 at 0255, music; first making sure it`s not still
Spain, as not // 6125, 9535. No doubt RRR, with vocal music across hourtop
0259-0301, then announcement, 0303 song. Very poor.
I`ve just returned from Enid`s Winter Chautauqua, so take the opportunity to
monitor at a daypart I usually don`t, before turning the computer noise back
on.
Also checked 6015 for Zanzibar at 0300, but no show; should have kept on it, as
Bill Bingham & Ron Howard say it came on late at *0302 this date (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN. 7205, March 1 at 0309, Arabic vs LSB QRM from hams; did not notice it
at first pass around 0300, not on, or totally blocked by QRhaM? More than usual
now, I think, due to some contest. EiBi & Aoki show *0215, WRTH *0230, HFCC
*0300! What to call this? EiBi says Sudan RTVC, but since it`s only in Arabic,
we should instead Roman-abbr. the ID as in WRTH: `Idha`atu-l-Gumhuriya
as-Sudan`` = IGS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 5885, March 1 at 0304, off-Arabic talk, with very heavy splash
from the BS on 5890 WWCR; Aoki shows it`s Afia Darfur/Hello Darfur in Sudanese
dialect, 0300-0330, 250 kW, 146 degrees from VATICAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9495, UT Sat March 1 at 0037 check, WRMI-14 with old music in
Spanish, program unknown; also seems like there is weak CCI from another
broadcaster. Don`t you believe Aoki listing showing UT Tue-Sat at 00-01 on
9495, WRMI is carrying Radio Libertad! As we have reported week after week,
it`s really alternatives, filled by a variety of other unjammed programming,
including DX shows [including WORLD OF RADIO at 0030 UT Sundays], while
Libertad remains only on the wall-of-noise-jammed frequency 9955 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.6, March 1 at 0306, WRNO is AWOL, hardly to be missed unless
deliberately checked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, March 1 at 1405 UT, weak but steady and clear signal with
opinions-expressed disclaimer from ``Newstalk 720, KDWN``, so now`s our good
chance to hear 50 kW ND Las Vegas NV; in fact from official March sunrise 1345
UT, altho before 1400 I was still hearing some 720 Spanish, presumably Ju?rez.
Check again from March 9, when 5:45 am local = 1245 UT will be an hour too
early to shift, in case they be confused. Such mixups, of course could apply to
countless other stations. A few years ago, KDWN were apparently doing that all
summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, March 1 at 1344 UT, big solid signal already from KKOB
Albuquerque NM, now that official sunrise has shifted from 1400 UT in February
to 1315 UT in March. (And April to 1230 UT). This led me later to check 720 for
Nevada, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1080, March 1 at 1355 UT, ``Classic Rock 105, The Cackle`` ? Not sure
of last word. Always fun to hear music on 1080 overcoming KRLD talk, like
nostalgic Green Vallely AZ; just after 1400 UT full ID as ``Rockin` the Castle
Valley, 105, KSLL is rockin```, atop KRLD, and then ``Black Betty`` song.
1080, KSLL is Price UT, 10 kW daytimer // translator which gets top billing!
K285AB 104.9 per NRC AM Log; Castle is spelt Kastle there, and it employs AM
$tereo. Apparently unrelated to plain old KSL, but the similar identity can`t
hurt. It`s a new month with everyone`s sunrise shifting half an hour to half a
sesquihour earlier than in February, in this case officially 1330 UT.
Price area, between Provo and Green River on US 6, is known as Castle Country
(with Cs), evidently inspired by rock formations rather than Mormon
fortifications:
http://www.castlecountry.com/
My learning experience from this log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1090, March 1 at 1357 UT, poor signal with romantic music in Spanish,
looping NW/SE which rather rules out Mexico, but fits perfectly for format and
direxion of KMXA Aurora CO, 50/0.5 kW, whose official March sunrise is already
1315 UT, so should have been solider thence? No, day pattern exhibits two
lobes/wings to the west and northeast, ``nothing`` toward us (while tinier
night pattern goes WNW) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6946.5, March 1 at 0039, huge open carrier, pirate? Not usually
anything there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12145.7, March 1 at 0636, open carrier with tone, then dead air,
fair signal. Probably a ute, as there are no broadcasters anywhere anywhen
scheduled on 12145, and this very transmitter may be the reason, wherever,
whatever it may be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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